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The Prophet's ﷺ household

Fāṭimah bint Muḥammad رضي الله عنها ﷺ رضي الله عنها

فاطمة بنت محمد

His youngest daughter, married to ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib رضي الله عنه.

Where they appear

  1. Going public — and the persecution

    Washed the filth from her father's back when Quraysh threw it on him as he prayed at the Kaʿbah.

  2. Conquest, completion and farewell

    Told in his final illness that she would be the first of his family to join him — and she wept, then smiled.

How it ended

Died six months after her father ﷺ — the first of his household to follow him.

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 240, 3623; ar-Raḥīq al-Makhtūm, al-Mubārakpūrī